Catalogue description Home Office: Departmental Committee on Liquor Licensing: Minutes and Papers

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Reference: HO 281
Title: Home Office: Departmental Committee on Liquor Licensing: Minutes and Papers
Description:

Minutes and papers of the Departmental Committee on Liquor Licensing, correspondence with interested parties and members of the public, working papers, opinion surveys etc.
Date: 1970-1973
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Departmental Committee on Liquor Licensing, 1971-1972
Physical description: 53 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

The Monopolies Commission issued a report in April 1969 which concluded that the tied house system had certain disadvantageous economic effects which operated against the public interest. The Commission recommended that the Liquor Licensing Laws should be substantially relaxed; this would have important social implications which they were unable to consider. The Departmental Committee on Liquor Licensing was appointed by the Home Secretary in April 1971, under the chairmanship of the Rt Hon Lord Erroll of Hale, to fill this gap.

Some of the Committee's recommendations were implemented in the Criminal Law Act 1977, the Licensing (Amendment) Act 1977, the Licensing (Alcohol Education and Research) Act 1981 and the Licensing (Occasional Permissions) Act 1983.

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